Spirit of the Stone
What secrets do you keep?
Remnants of a ravaged
Civilization lost
The imprint of an ancient tree
Do you now rest
In a Zen Garden?
Cool water dribbling
Across the solidity of your surface
It is said you carry the memory
Of Earth, the place of our beginnings,
Do the abrasions you bear
Erase with the gentle rub
Of fingertips
Or are indelible
Impressions left?
Hidden Properties instilled by the
Extremes of heat and pressure,
Erosion, by wind and water
Metamorphic rock
The jumbling of atoms
Have your struggles
Through Time
Given you resilience?
Is Magic invoked
In the taut clutch of hands?
Endurance gained through the ages
To arrive at this place in Time
Something tells me
You understand pain
The legacy you carry
We are all stones in the end